Category: travel

arrived Bermuda

On By Rick McIn gymnastics, travelLeave a comment

I’ll be working with the Gymnastics Federation here and 5 member clubs through until Christmas.

Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the east shore of North America …

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Bermuda’s economy is based on offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism, the two largest economic sectors. …

Bermuda is a group of low-forming volcanoes …

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I’m staying at the Grotto Bay Beach Resort to start.

giant kites in Parksville

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Parksville, B.C. hosts one of the top 10 kite festivals in Canada.

Parksville Lions International Kite Festival
Jul 16, 2016 to Jul 17, 2016

Later in the summer I was cycling past surprised to see these monster kites down by the beach as part of no festival whatsoever. If one of these fell on your head, you’d be hurting.

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mapping the world in a simpler way

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What3words (stylizedwhat3words) is a geocoding system for the simple communication of locations with a resolution of 3 m.

what3words encodes geographic coordinates into 3 dictionary words (for example, the Statue of Liberty is located at planet.inches.most).

Click PLAY or see how it works on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/112227335

Mongolia officially adopted the new address system. Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

people are good

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Rob Greenfield traveled 37 days Panama City to San Diego with no cash in hand at the start.

His conclusion – most people are good. The world’s a safer place than the media would lead you to believe.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

cycling Canmore

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We finished the 1st annual Canmore Gymnastics Camp today at 1pm. With the traditional pie in the face for coaches. 🙂

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A few days ago we talked about heading back up to the Nordic Centre this afternoon to ride trails including Soft Yogurt again.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Instead I relaxed only touring the excellent trails in and around Canmore.

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Tonight I’ll open a bottle of Old Farm. Celebrate with Ashley Sportun and the rest of the coaches.